it doesn't change the fact the attempted attacker in LA was not
No, it doesn't.
But neither does there seem to be any evidence at all that Howell had any intention of staging any kind of attack.
The guy was a bisexual who, according to friends, "harbored no ill will toward gays or lesbians", and was on his way to the festival to meet up with a friend or friends.
Which I guess is something gay and bisexual men do (meet up with each other and hang out at gay pride festivals)?
So your comment here is really apropos of nothing.
tell me this, if he was christian instead as the vast majority of gay bashers in this country are, do you think trump would use this tragedy to vow he will keep christians out of the country?
If radical fundamentalist Christians had staged three major and several more "minor" terror attacks in the United States in the past three years, several more in Europe, and dozens across the Middle East and Asia?
If radical Christian clerics were calling for the deaths of all non-Christians and the establishment of a global Christian caliphate?
If there were major Christian terrorist groups taking over large portions of several countries?
And if we'd been at war with radical Christianity for the better part of the past two decades?
Yeah, I don't know, maybe Trump would be seeking ways to keep more Christians out of the country
until we could find a way to better vet those coming in.
It's kind of funny how when you leave out the overwhelming majority of the facts related to what's going on the position you're staking almost seems to make sense.
Buy when you include those facts and assess the situation in light of truth, logic, and reason your comment makes you look like a hysterical six-year-old girl who is afraid of her own shadow.
anyone who is gay knows who hates them, and unless you live in a muslim area like dearborn, it's the old christian lady on the bus saying "well they deserved it"
I doubt that most gays in America these days worry all that much about who hates them.
Now, I'm sure the odd gay kid attending a high school deep in the Bible belt certainly has his concerns about how the rednecks on the football team would view his sexual preference, but I can't recall a time any of my gay friends in NY or NJ, and now the suburbs of Dallas, TX mentioned having recently avoided doing something for fear that they would be targeted for a hate crime. None of them walk the streets furtively looking over their shoulder in fear of roving bands of murderous gay-hating Christians.
I think you're really blowing the whole "Christians hate gays" thing way out of proportion.
Most "Christian hate" is really just political opposition to gay marriage.
And by the same token, most Islamic hatred of homosexuals here in the West is really little more than that.
But this attack in Orlando wasn't REALLY about killing homosexuals for the sake of their being homosexuals.
It was a terror attack by Islam, on the West.
Period.
Full stop.
But this time instead of it being random spectators at a sporting event, or Soldiers working at a recruiting station, or people attending a concert, or folks riding commuter trains, or whatever of the many other targets radical Islamic terrorists have chosen to attack here in the U.S. and across the pond on the homeland of one of our European allies over the past few years, these victims happened to be homosexuals.
Trying to make this more about homophobia and less about Islamic terrorism is just stupid.
I have no doubt that our gay friends can rest assured that the next Islamic terror attack here in the U.S. will target a school, or a mall, or a bus stop, or something completely other than a gay nightclub.
